I can still dance a little, yes, but I like singing better. It's more fun.

I don't have too many friends. I have only a few people who I really love.

I'm basically drawn to defeated, injured, hurt, barely walking characters.

The only time I'm totally happy is when I'm watching films or making them.

When I felt like an outsider, movies made me feel inside my own skill set.

Having done a Dogme film taught me the beauty of simplicity and austerity.

I never have particular actors planned when I'm in the process of writing.

There aren't rules in a romance, so they can be played any number of ways.

If I'm lucky, in my wildest dreams I can make a picture every three years.

Nothing could be more restrictive than working with people in advertising.

When I became a film-maker, all my favourite films, they weren't comedies.

It was the era of Tab Hunter and Rock Hudson; they all had a certain look.

But the process of making a film is not glamorous. Certainly not my films.

I like the challenge of doing things you know that you maybe shouldn't do.

I always wonder why some people see things as weird and some people don't.

Melodrama is sometimes broadly applied and sometimes derogatorily applied.

Bangkok, like Las Vegas, sounds like a place where you make bad decisions.

I always loved comic books and I'm still a great fan of the graphic novel.

I see planets that don't exist and landscapes that have only been dreamed.

Strangely enough, there's this mythology sprouting out that I cannot stop.

I'm very sorry for your loss. Your mother was a terribly attractive woman.

Star Wars is one of a handful of films that changed the zeitgeist forever.

Directors don't always create, they can also destroy with too many demands.

There are at least two retrospectives of my work each year in some country.

Dancing and music were my first love. I was happiest at being a chorus boy.

Life and death are illusions. We are in a constant state of transformation.

Rhythm is God. I think, without rhythm, you can't create - there is no art.

And Walker was made with a Mexican crew, although it was shot in Nicaragua.

'24' glamorizes torture. I don't think there's any other way of putting it.

Film your murders like love scenes, and film your love scenes like murders.

I'd rather see what young people are going through than see things explode.

It is very good to bridge the gaps between Indian and international cinema.

I use humour a lot. My foundation is tragic, but my appearance is humorous.

Don't just stand there, idiot. Call a doctor, and then help me find a nose.

We feel that what's too far is when you make a joke and somebody gets hurt.

Everyone who knows me knows that I don't have a prejudiced bone in my body.

I don't really put trophies out. I don't keep trophies around my apartment.

'Victoria Para Chino,' my 2nd-year film at NYU, gave birth to 'Sin Nombre.'

I just love photographing things and putting them together to tell a story.

The quality of racing continues to excel with starters increasing to 1496,.

You must push everything to the absolute limit or else life will be boring.

But no one should have the right to manipulate my films in the first place.

The Opera was a very cold film, a hopeless and dark film, no hope, no love.

My idea of professionalism is probably a lot of people's idea of obsessive.

When you make the kind of movies I make, you get weird letters from people.

What do you fear, most of all? The possibility that love may not be enough.

Believe it or not, but I was a camp councilor for three years. I love kids.

Sometimes you have this tragedy which turns into an incredible opportunity.

I think the more honest you are with the storytelling, the better it works.

Regrets are a waste of time. They're the past crippling you in the present.

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